Retina-X Banned by FTC From Selling Their ‘Stalking’ Apps
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) says that a settlement has been reached with Retina-X Studios, LLC (Retina-X), the company behind three ‘stalkerware’ mobile applications, that bars it from selling the apps unless they are used for legitimate purposes. […]
EU Member States Publish Joint Report on 5G Networks Security
European Union (EU) member states published a joint high-level report on the coordinated risk assessment on the security of 5G networks, identifying the main threats and threats actors, the most sensitive assets, and the main vulnerabilities behind them. […]
Windows 10 1903 on ARM Gets a Virtualization-based Security Feature
Windows 10 version 1903 on ARM has gotten an additional virtualization-based security feature that creates secured regions of memory that are isolated from the operating system. These secured and isolated regions of memory can then be used by security solutions so that they are better protected from vulnerabilities in the operating s […]
Cloudflare Now Blocks the vBulletin RCE CVE-2019-16759 Exploit
This week a zero-day vBulletin remote code execution vulnerability and exploit was publicly disclosed and is being used by bad actors to attack vBulletin forums. Cloudflare has now created a special rule that will prevent this exploit from working on vBulletin sites behind Cloudflare’s service. […]
Google Unveils DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) Plan, Mozilla’s Faces Criticism
Google has announced that they would soon be performing a trial of utilizing DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) in the Google Chrome browser. This experiment will be conducted in Chrome 78 and will attempt to upgrade a user’s DNS server to a corresponding DoH server, and if available, use that for DNS resolution. […]